February 2025
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Well, this is more like it–more what I hoped for from a Beethoven concerto. More like Beethoven, I would even say. I mean, if Beethoven had died in, say, 1802, when he had written only the first two symphonies and the first two piano concertos, he would certainly have been remembered, but he wouldn't be…
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I had planned to go, then decided not to go, then decided to go, then didn't. The reasons wouldn't interest you, but one reason for the shifts was that I wasn't all that enthusiastic about the program. There were two pieces, the first being a Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists, by Philip Glass. What? Or…
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I heard a story many years ago that Mick Jagger objected to the popular impression that he had corrupted the angelic-looking young Marianne Faithfull. He claimed it was the other way around. Whether that story is true or not, she was certainly a very enthusiastic drug user for some large part of her life (at…
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